Nemean Lion

The English word lion is derived via Anglo-Norman liun from Latin leōnem (nominative: leō), which in turn was a borrowing from Ancient Greek λέων léōn. The Hebrew word לָבִיא lavi may also be related.

The Nemean lion has a golden peach-colored skin and muscular, deep-chested body; a short, rounded head; round ears; a golden brown and wavy hairy tuft at the end of its tail; and even the eye color of the Nemean lion is brown.

The Nemean lion could not be killed with mortals' weapons because its golden fur was impervious to attack. Its claws were sharper than mortals' swords and could cut through any armor. This lion's fur gave it protective property when the arrow bounced harmlessly off the creature's thigh.

The Nemean lion was also cunning. The lion would lure warriors or livestock to his den or pride by kidnapping others that he could use as bait for the pride.

The modern lion has inhabited parts of southern Europe since the early Holocene, before Ancient Greece. According to the legend before Cain and Seth, the lion was evolved into its own species by the moon goddess Selene and her sister Chang'e, who threw this animal from Mount Olympus at Hera's request in what is now Nemea in Peloponnese. In Greece, it was common, as reported by Herodotus in 480 BC; it was considered rare by 300 BC and extirpated by AD 100, except for the Nemean one.

Nemean lions are the most social of all wild felid species, living in groups of related individuals with their offspring, and some males live alone. Such a group is called a "pride". Groups of Nemean lions are called "hoplites". Females form a stable social unit with pride and do not tolerate outside children. The Nemean lion is a generalist hypercarnivore and is considered to be both an apex and keystone predator due to its wide prey spectrum against mortals and gods. A Nemean lion can take down a dragon. The prey of Nemean lions consists mainly of mammals, particularly ungulates and pinnipeds. The last individual was eventually killed by Heracles or Hercules. Another myth says that the lion was killed by the god Apollo, Selene's brother.

Nemean lions are strategist and hostile when solving the problem that Nemean lions are.

Nemean lion is an endemic species in Greece, but rarely in Macedonia as well.

• Movement Pattern: Random

• Individual Type: Group

• Population Trend: Stable

• Population: ???

• Locomotion: Terrestrial

• Habitat: All

• Earth: Greece; North Macedonia

Alpha Nemean Lion cannot be tamed when it is in the adult stage. Only in cub one were notable exceptions. Any raw fish or milk can be used to tame the abandoned kitten.

In Greek mythology, Nemea was ruled by King Lycurgus and Queen Eurydice. Nemea was famous in Greek myth as the home of the Nemean Lion, which was killed by the hero Heracles, and as the place where the infant Opheltes, lying on a bed of parsley, was killed by a serpent while his nurse Hypsipyle fetched water for the Seven against Thebes on their way from Argos to Thebes.

• Greek: Νεμέος λέων (Neméos léōn)

• Latin: Leo Nemeaeus

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